Bryant Public Schools Explained

Bryant Public Schools
Location:200 Northwest 4th Street
Bryant, Arkansas 72022
Country:USA
Superintendent:Dr. Karen Walters
School Board:Bryant School Board
Faculty:480.68 (on FTE basis)
Schools:10
Staff:879.68 (on FTE basis),
810 (total employees)
Ratio:16.70
Type:Public school district
Enrollment:8,027 (2010–11)
Free Label:Area
Free Text:349sqmi
Free Label2:School Millage Rate
Free Text2:33.5 mills
Free Label3:Free/Reduced Lunch Rate
Free Text3:27.1%
Free Label4:Per Pupil Expenses
Free Text4:US$5,621

Bryant Public Schools (or Bryant Public School District) is a public school district based in Bryant, Arkansas, United States. Since the 2010–11 school year, the school district provides early childhood, elementary and secondary education to more than 8,000 students in prekindergarten through grade 12 and employs more than 875 educators and staff at its schools and district offices. BPS encompasses 342.19mi2 of land in Saline County.

It supports all portions of Bryant, Alexander, Avilla, Bauxite, Benton, Salem CDP, Shannon Hills,[1] and Paron.[2]

History

In the early 1970s, political aide Carol Rasco set up the public school system's psychological counseling services while she worked in the district.[3]

On July 1, 2004 the Paron School District merged into the Bryant School District.[4] Because the state government considered Paron an isolated rural area, it gave an additional $838,000 to the Bryant district. Due to low student populations and the resulting complications, the district closed Paron High School in 2006,[5] and Paron Elementary School in 2015.[6]

In 2011, Bryant School District and its high school were recognized in the AP District of the Year Awards program in the College Board's 2nd Annual Honor Roll that consisted of 367 U.S. public school districts (4 in Arkansas) that simultaneously achieved increases in access to AP® courses for a broader number of students and improved the rate at which their AP students earned scores of 3 or higher on an AP Exam.[7]

Schools

High schools:

Middle schools:

In 2017, Bryant Public Schools announced a junior high school, which will be open in the 2019-20 school year to 8th through 9th graders.

Elementary schools:

Former schools

Notable alumni

Further reading

Maps of the district and predecessors

References

  1. "SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Saline County, AR." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on May 24, 2018. For Paron compare to the highway map.
  2. Web site: General Highway Map Saline County, Arkansas. Arkansas Department of Transportation. 2021-02-28. January 26, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210126203424/https://www.arkansashighways.com/maps/Counties/County%20PDFs/SalineCounty.pdf. dead. - See Paron on the map.
  3. News: CLINTON'S WINDOW ON THE HOME FRONT. Radcliffe. Donnie. 1993-08-24. Washington Post. 2018-07-28. en-US. 0190-8286.
  4. "ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls." Arkansas Department of Education. Retrieved on May 23, 2018.
  5. "School Consolidation." Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. Retrieved on May 24, 2018.
  6. Web site: Mershon, Matt. Bryant school board votes to cut $3 million, close Paron Elementary. KATV. 2015-04-21. 2018-05-24.
  7. Web site: AP District of the Year Awards: 2nd Annual Honor Roll . College Board . 1 November 2011 . 14 November 2012.
  8. Web site: Bryant School Board votes to close Paron Elementary . The Saline Courier. 2018-05-24.

External links

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